“The government will keep its promise of reducing prices of imported cars between 20% and 30% within the next five years,” Hamim said in response to a question by Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli in Parliament.

However, Hamim said the price reductions do not include imported luxury cars, the English-language daily reported. He was not reported to have elaborated on what constitutes a luxury car, or what exactly was meant by mid-range engine capacities.

While most dream of the future, Jonathan Tan dreams of the past, although he's never been there. Fantasises much too often about cruising down Treacher Road (Jalan Sultan Ismail) in a Triumph Stag that actually works, and hopes this stint here will snap him back to present reality.

Now Government is trying to qualify and lie. Najib promised 30% in ALL car prices BUT now, they are trying to say “Only for Imported Cars”. That is the key and catch. Blatant way to cheat Malaysians again.

This is how the Government again, trying to putar belit their words and trying to cheat the 30 million Malaysians.

Seriously, where is Najib’s promise to reduce car prices by 30%?

More than a year ago, Najib promised every single of the 30 million Malaysians that he would reduce car prices by 30% if we voted for him and his BN party before the elections.

Najib swore that BN always kept their promises and we Malaysians had nothing to worry about BN not keeping their word. He told us not to trust Pakatan and he firmly said he would match Pakatan’s manifesto of reducing car prices by 30%. Nearly ALL BN Ministers kept on saying that we could trust BN and we should not trust Pakatan.

More than a year has passed, nothing has reduced. Infact, car prices have gone up! All the car companies in Malaysia are eventually owned by the Government. UMW for Toyota, Honda by DRB, BMW, Hyundai and Ford by Sime Darby. Virtually every single company is owned by the Government (GLC).

So, if they want to reduce car prices, they can. But they don’t want to. they blame the car brands but we Malaysians know that nearly ALL car brands are owned by the Government. It is up to the Government to just give the order to reduce prices.

How can we trust Najib, BN and UMNO if basic promises like this they cannot keep? This is just a basic and simple promise. What about bigger promises of tackling corruption, improving healthcare and education?

Has Najib lied to us? It looks now, they are trying to manipulate what they said and say just for imported cars.

Why make C and D segment cars only affordable to the well to do and wealthy? All cars must be made affordable to all Malaysians. We Malaysians earn so little compared to other countries and yet, the Government whacks us with super high car prices.

78.6% of all EPF contributors still earn RM3000 and below. (That is from RM500 to RM2999). This was announced by Raja Nazrin recently quoting EPF data.

He was proving the Government wrong as the Government again lied to the people that we are on our way to earn GDP Per Capita of US$48,000 per annum by 2020. That is US$4000 (RM13,000) per month by 2020, which is 6 years time.

Raja Nazrin, Sultan of Perak refuted the governments claim and openly declared EPF figures that 78.6% of all EPF contributors still earn RM3000 and below.

He also said 2 million households earn RM5000 and below which Raja Nazrin said was Government statistics.

So, how can people afford cars costing more than RM100,000? Why is it just exclusive to high income earners?

Do you think average gaji of Malaysians will go up to RM13,000 in 6 years time?

2016 announcement again: we have started to reduce vehicle prices by 30% in the next 5 years.
Get it?
It does not affect me, don’t misunderstand; I do not need to wait.

BTW, please fine RM5000 (five thousand ringgit) on those who bully a lot of roadusers by driving at 60km/jam at the fast lane. This, as well as using mobile phone while driving, may indirectly or directly cause deaths of self or others, and therefore are serious offences. Spitting on my windscreen will not kill me; it just serve an intention to teach me to drive more carefully and caringly instead of following ego or recklessly.
Superman, please don’t come to the Earth, you cannot save this world because if you beat even a small rapist just before the penetration, before the police arrives, you will be judged guilty.

RM5000 penalty can generate a lot of income to government. And the police officers giving out summons should receive 10% of the amounts as grattitude to encourage them to scrutinise the road for kura-kura at the fast lane and mobil-phone addicts.

forever next 5 years, next 5 years will never come. all i know for the next 5 years i will make sure to not vote for the one keep saying next 5 years while giving him a slap every single day for 5 years the next 5 years and counting.

YEAH 10% car price reduction???
LOL WHAT COUNTRY are YOU LIVING IN?
EVEN if i look at this optimistically and say it was 5% (which it barely even touches) what about next year 6% GST.
You think they are so generous? Whatever they give they get in return, don’t be a fool.

Yes, CKD price is a bit cheaper than before, but still too expensive as compared to car prices in contries where their citizens earn 3-5 times more than us, USA is one prime example. Imported cars are of the expensive variety, not many Malaysians can afford to buy imported cars even if the prices is reduced by 20% immediately.

1 more thing after reduse 20- 30% price for the car…
but our G will take it back from you other pocket.
fuel? Toll?
More road block?
Increase tax like gst, income tax, dan lain2 tax yg kite tak dapat bayang kan.
Thanks BN make malaysia become candy crush country….

LOL… MITI is a real joke in Governing Body.. Nxt 5 years? not included luxury cars? Imported but not luxury? owh later they will say as most of our car is CKD-ed therefore no reduction. And Luxury car is not included. So in the end, they win. we all just listen. when the time comes, just change them. Thats it.

Ha ha ha… I forgot when was the last time MITI said the same thing about price reduction. Wait? During the last election right?
By the way, in waiting for Maserati (Official) to come out and start praising the government that keep teir promise. Most likely pro-BN troller

Why rich getting richer? because they know how to save treasure monetary value. Yes, Most Malaysian are rich and can afford RM500k and above. But why wanna fork out such amount when we can have a lower market price? No one will ever complain about too much money unless u live a meaningless life.

i think the manufacturers ada role to play, it is known that they keep prices high so that their 2nd value wont plummet and same time make more profit from tax reduction.umw once declared that they sell tax free prius at a higher price because not to interfere with their altis,vios sales.

Well, to simply say it. BN knows majority of us wants cheaper cars and the only people who can make it happen are them. Why waste a bargaining chip when they can use it against us for GE14? When the time comes to vote, BN will made promises to us all over again and sadly there are still lots of naive people who listens to them despite being lied to over and over again. Enough is enough, I value my children’s future more than cheaper cars.

thank you najib. U are spot on. And delivering your promises in due time

Among the things u already DONE were ckd operations and tax exemptions on EEV programmes. A few german cars already reduced by 5-15%. And also not to mention many japanese models already being sold CHEAPER than they first sold before u made ur promises.

An already CKD honda model, even sold around 5% less than their actual price these days. And it the RRP not the end of year discount they giving!

and if we are to compare again, then i am afraid we only enhancing ur strength and deliveries of ur promises.

Thank you najib but i would like u to reduce the ron95 petrol price not because of i am asking u, but the downtrend of the oil trading price nowadays

Dato dato, Tan sri tan sri, tun tun, datuk sri datuk sri.
Put it simple. Show the rakyat the mechanism. Lay it down so we know our direction. You might say it will affect car distributor & manufacturer. At the end of the day, they will benefit from your plan. If you can table the GST implementation nicely, why not car price reduction plan?
Enough talking. That was government promise YEARS ago.
Regards, your friendly keyboard warrior.
Hahaha!

Even if they reduce car price other ways will be used the recoup the lost revenue. You all think GST will stay at 6%? They show benchmarks that other countries have higher GST to justify the increase (eg SG 7%) later. The fact is the G is used to a certain type of lifestyle which is hard to cut down… Like when you upgrade to BMW, would your next car be a VW (see what I did there?)…

“BULLSHIT” Just reduce the car prices NOW!! Petrol subsidies will be removed by Dec. 1’14 and you want the rakyat to wait 5 years for car prices to be reduced! The way you talk is exactly like the duck backside shitting every way and everywhere.

The government tax structures and duties then and now, not much different.
How come today got so expensive?
higher production cost?
manufacturer making more money?
dealers getting higher margin?
Or simply people got more money, and the market responded?
Inflation is of course a give away

As the base cost due to unfavourable currency increases, the final price will be even higher after taxes and duties.

Then add compounded inflation of give and take some, 2.5% per annum over period of 20 years. Coumpounded inflation will make up that figure all on its own.

Inflation makes the biggest difference, which is why the government is usually very very VERY conservative on its published figure. By my own rough calculations, we should be looking at a figure closer to 3.2%, which means our real GDP (and more importantly per capita GDP) as of next year will likely record a negative growth after expected lower income on crude and comodities.

First of all you are lying. E46 was never available in 1996. That was E36. The E36 318i cost approx 138k back in 1994. Secondly, E46 318i already cost 206k in 1999 after our ringgit shrunk by around 30% from 97-98 financial crisis.

UNTIL TODATE MALAYSIA already missing several auto manufacturer TO SET UP automobile plant.All of them move to THAILAND and indonesia which offers attractive incentive and specialities.does anybody knows how much the rakyat loose just because of proton.??? for an example during Rafidah aziz Toyota approach them but dissmissed cause of the governments stupid policy.now Thai makeS it and GAINING FROM MALAYSIA’S LOOSE

I remember a story. A guy borrows money his friend and promise to return by TOMORROW.
On the next day his friend ask the guy to return the money.
Instead of returning the money he speaks to his friend that he had stated that he will return the money by TOMORROW. On the next day the guy tells his friend that he has promised to return by TOMORROW ! ! ! ! !
So what is the difference of keeping promise of reducing the car price by next FIVE years ?
Moral : THERE IS NO ENDING OF TOMORROW, SAME APPLIES TO NEXT FIVE YEARS.

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